Quality Management (3,375 Books)

Quality management can be considered to have four main components: quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement.[1] Quality management is focused not only on product/service quality, but also the means to achieve it. Quality management therefore uses quality assurance and control of processes as well as products to achieve more consistent quality.

By: Montana. Dept. of Health and Environmental Sciences

Description: This document contains coordinates and maps defining Montana's nonattainment areas for particulate matter (PM-10), carbon monoxide (CO), and lead (Pb). It is inteneded to be a reference for state agencies and the general public."

By: Montana.Dept. of Environmental Quality

By: Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy

Software Quality Assurance is a specialized activity and it contributes in building capable processes in organization. This book details the different knowledge areas and provides practical insight which is required for software quality analyst to quickly grasp and start being productive within days, and contributes to build such capable processes. This book details the basics of quality assurance, relevant techniques and methods used in quality assurance.
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Audit Expectations:
An audit is expected to check, does the Quality System meet the requirements of the relevant Quality System Standard/model or Contract? Does the organization do what the Quality System specifies? Is the Quality System, as implemented, effective in ensuring maintenance and improvement of the quality of products and services?
Audit is not an alternative to an inspection operation and cannot serve as a crutch to an ineffective inspection or quality sys...

By: David M. Walker

Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

Excerpt: GAO invites your comments on the accompanying proposed changes to the quality control and assurance section of the 2003 revision of Government Auditing Standards. The proposed changes to the quality control and assurance and peer review section include standards relating to an audit organization?s system of quality control and external peer reviews. The finalized version will replace the quality control and assurance section (paragraphs 3.49 through 3.54) of cha...

By: Katherine V. Schinasi

Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

Excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) spends about $1.5 billion extra per year on military-unique quality assurance requirements for major acquisitions and billions more on cost and schedule overruns to correct problems caused partly by poor quality practices. To help improve DOD?s quality assurance program, we reviewed world-class commercial organizations to determine what practices they had adopted to more efficiently produce quality products. Specifically, this rep...